The Beating Heart

I remember reading in school Of the “Tell tale heart” I read with a lump in my throat Hardly breathing A story that was so cruel The intensity of which it beat To inform others of the wrong That was done The beating so loud To the one that had wounded it Makes me wonder Does it happen now When someone breaks your heart Can they hear the pain Or does your heart cry out in vain People so calloused and so cruel Have they broken so many They forget all the rules To protect something so strong And yet so fragile Takes a person with devotion A person with character So this is to all Take warning Take heed Don’t give something so precious For someone to bleed Your heart just can’t sit alone on a shelf For to love the right one Brings abundant wealth